Implicit Numeric-to-Character Conversion - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2024-04-03
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If a numeric argument in an SQL string function is implicitly converted to a CHAR or VARCHAR character type, and the format of the numeric argument includes any of the following formatting characters, the server character set of the character type is UNICODE:

  • G
  • F
  • O
  • A
  • D
  • L
  • U
  • I
  • C
  • N

For all other formats, the server character set is LATIN.

Numeric items cannot be converted to CLOB types or GRAPHIC characters.